there will be no more time

I don't know why this seems the perfect version. To an untrained ear the Tashi and others sound just a touch too shrill. Or maybe there's something in the pacing that's different or maybe it's the video. Doesn't matter.

In any case, it reminds me of that haunting line from J. Lear's beautiful book, 'Radical Hope,' where Plenty Coups says: And then nothing happened.

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Architecture and happiness, from Mark Vernon's interesting blog (his piece on friendship is excellent)...

A home, a house, a shell, a cave: this primal need for rest, for protection against the wildness beyond; our first sense of inwardness; the freedom of not appearing, of not being seen or known except by loved ones. The conservatism of the family...is it any different from the conservatism of the house? But each house also has its cellars and strange corners, its creaking stairs, its rooms with high windows, its view of all that extends beyond the house: trees, stars... The house is our first world, the ark, a bunker (Beckett's 'Endgame', when there's no more time), but also a reminder that nakedness is a terrible affliction. The house is inextricably linked with our memories and a sense of timelessness. The house: the place to which we return again and again, hoping to find a part of ourselves long forgotten.

Only the saints can truly be 'homeless'.

[Anyone who talks about tradition nowadays is asking for it. But if you're a old and grumpy-and Scruton comes across as that, a sort of thinking man's Prince Charles-then you probably deserve it. Anyone who uses the word 'monstrosity' is a fake]. Still, his idea of 'settlement' is surely on the mark: happiness is not a fleeting sensation but something that endures.

"A house, wherever it may be, is an enduring thing, and it bears perpetual witness to the slow pace of civilisations, of cultures bent on preserving, maintaining, and repeating...

It was as if the houses were a response to the external world and like the cloister, the fortified castle, the walled town, the walled garden acted as a protection against the difficulties of material life."
---from Braudel.